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Call it Sleep

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Informationen zum Autor Henry Roth (1906-1995) was born in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia. He probably landed on Ellis Island in 1909 and began his life in New York on the Lower East Side, in the slums where Call It Sleep is set. He is the author as well of Shifting Landscapes , a collection of essays, and the Mercy of a Rude Stream tetralogy. Alfred Kazin (1915-98), was an American critic. His first book, On Native Grounds (1942), is a critical study of American prose literature from Howells to Faulkner. Later essay collections include The Inmost Leaf (1955), Contemporaries (1962), Bright Book of Life (1973), An American Procession (1984), Writing Was Everything (1995), and God and the American Writer (1997). Klappentext Henry Roth (1906-1995) was born in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galitzia. He probably landed on Elis Island in 1909! and began his life in New York on the Lower East Side! in the slums where Call It Sleep is set. He is the author as well of Shifting Landscapes! a collection of essays! and the Mercy of a Rude Stream tetralogy. Alfred Kazin (1915-98)! was an American critic. His first book! On Native Grounds (1942)! is a critical study of American prose literature from Howells to Faulkner. Later essay collections include The Inmost Leaf (1955)! Contemporaries (1962)! Bright Book of Life (1973)! An American Procession (1984)! Writing Was Everything (1995)! and God & the American Writer (1997). Zusammenfassung David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother's arms to begin his new life as an immigrant. David is hated by his father, but is fiercely loved and protected by his Yiddish-speaking mother. This novel interweaves the love between a mother and son with the terrors and anxieties David experiences, as he seeks to find his own identity.

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Authors Henry Roth
Assisted by Alfred Kazin (Introduction), Kazin Alfred (Introduction)
Publisher Penguin Books Uk
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 05.10.2006
 
EAN 9780141188652
ISBN 978-0-14-118865-2
No. of pages 464
Dimensions 130 mm x 200 mm x 30 mm
Series Penguin Modern Classics
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

New York City, FICTION / Literary, Modernism, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950

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